Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Thanks to Twitter, Reddit, web media, and social media, we have the opportunity now to kind of blur that line between the people who produce the content, the people that watch it, and instead make it a conversation, make it a real community.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.